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Home to two-thirds of the world’s population and some of the world’s largest economies, the region’s trajectory has a tremendous impact on sustainable development at the global level.

Asia and the Pacific has seen billions of people lifted out of extreme poverty in the past decades. Nevertheless, when the SDGs were adopted in 2015, 273 million people in the region were still living on less than 1ドル.90 a day and 1.1 billion were living very close to the poverty line on less than 3ドル.20 per day. Economic growth has not always translated into decent jobs for all, and inequality has been a pervasive challenge. Environmental issues have been increasingly pressing, with oceans and forests under increasing stress, and greenhouse gas emissions growing rapidly.

At the halfway point toward 2030, the ambitious agenda has been challenged by unprecedented shocks and progress across Asia and the Pacific falls short of the halfway mark. However, some level of progress has been made in all SDGs in ADB’s DMCs except two where reversals have taken place: SDG 13 (climate action) and SDG 14 (life below water).

Since the adoption of the SDGs in 2015, ADB has been working with its DMCs to deliver on the SDGs through four critical areas of support: (i) strategic alignment of its operations to the SDGs, (ii) direct financing of member countries and the private sector in support of the SDGs, (iii) mobilizing additional finance for the SDGs from a wide range of sources and (iv) providing knowledge, data and policy dialogue on SDG progress and implementation. Within these areas of support, ADB uses technology and partnerships to drive initiatives that accelerate progress.

Through the activities in these four areas, ADB aims to increase implementation and achievement of the SDGs in DMCs, and contribute to realizing its vision for a prosperous, inclusive, resilient and sustainable Asia and the Pacific. In doing so, ADB is channeling increased financing towards supporting the SDGs, improving the integration of the SDGs into national and subnational development planning, strengthening DMCs SDG institutional architecture, and enhancing the knowledge and data on topics related to the SDGs.

Since the 2030 Agenda was adopted, ADB has taken several steps to embed the SDGs in its strategies, planning and reporting processes at all levels of the organization, namely at corporate, country and project levels.

Corporate alignment. ADB’s Strategy 2030 Mid Term Review published in 2024 sets the road map for how ADB will transform in a rapidly changing development landscape and respond to challenges that threaten its vision for a prosperous, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable Asia and the Pacific, ensuring accelerated progress on the SDGs. The MTR lays out five strategic focus areas where ADB can have a bold impact and that are linked to 5 cross cutting SDGs: (i) climate action (SDG 13), (ii) private sector development, (iii) regional cooperation and public goods and (iv) digital transformation (all SDG 17 targets as means of implementation), and (v) resilience and empowerment (SDG 1 – no poverty, SDG 5 – gender equality, and SDG 10 – reduced inequalities).

The progress DMCs make towards achieving their SDG targets is a key measure in ADB’s Corporate Results Framework (CRF), which provides the basis for reporting on ADB’s strategic, operational, and organizational performance. The new CRF for 2025-2030 introduces new outcome-oriented indicators as development results linked to the SDGs, to more directly assess ADB’s contributions to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.

Country-level alignment. The alignment of ADB’s country engagement with the SDGs is reflected in the bank’s Country Partnership Strategies (CPS) with each DMC, which serve as the primary planning instrument that guides ADB’s country-level operations. As an input to the CPS development process, briefing notes are prepared to provide specific country context on the SDG agenda, covering information on the country’s SDG architecture, implementation, and progress, and helping identify needs. Each CPS also contains a results framework that monitors and tracks how ADB-supported programming will help achieve development outcomes, in alignment with the SDGs as well as the country’s national and global development objectives.

Project-level alignment. The SDGs are integrated into ADB’s electronic project classification system (referred to as e-Operations) and are reflected in the project-at-a-glance summary of reports and recommendations of the President for new projects. This allows the SDGs to be considered at the project design phase, providing a clear mapping of contributions, reported annually in ADB’s Development Effectiveness Review. Additionally, ADB, through its Private Sector Operations Department (PSOD), uses the Harmonized Indicators for Private Sector Operations (HIPSO) to report the interim results of the contributions to the SDGs.

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